![]() ![]() Jason Shivers said the entire right side of the home had heavy damage from the tree’s impact. Forsyth County firefighters removed parts of the tree and placed a tarp over Loney’s home to help prevent further damage. Her husband, Steve Ray, had already left for work. I was standing right where the tree hit the worst.” Loney and her two dogs were able to get out of the family’s home of 28 years without injury. “I was standing in the bathroom and all of a sudden I heard a loud sound,” Loney said. an oak tree from her backyard fell across the right side of her Southers Circle home. She was getting ready for work Monday morning when something crashed above her. Janet Loney is just grateful no one got hurt. It’s a situation, officials said, that could happen more often as winter approaches. Meanwhile, Hall County and the city of Gainesville are still addressing dozens of road closures.A combination of drought followed by heavy rain is being blamed for toppling a tree on a south Forsyth home Monday. Transportation officials say motorists should treat malfunctioning traffic lights as a four-way stop until they begin operating normally. The outages also affected traffic lights at area intersections. John Kraft, a spokesman for Georgia Power added Thursday afternoon that power companies urge residents not to touch any wires they may see hanging or lying loose, as a live wire looks just like a dead wire and could cause serious injury. "High winds and gusts have caused a significant number of trees and limbs to fall on power lines, resulting in power outages," an Oct. Initial outage reports from Thursday morning represented 42% of Jackson customers in Hall, 55% of Georgia Power customers in Hall and 61% of Sawnee customers in Hall affected. Friday, with 493 of those customers in Hall. Sawnee EMC reported a total 4,315 customers without power as of 12:55 p.m. Friday, nearly 182,000 Georgia Power customers were without power, 6,845 of those customers in Hall. In Hall County 3,202 remained without power as of 12:55 p.m. ![]() 30, down from more than 50,000 Thursday at 7 a.m. ![]() Jackson EMC reported 4,231 total customers affected by outages at 12:55 p.m. So, a lot of roads will remain closed until we get the power secured.” And until the wind gusts subside, for (utility workers’) safety and our safety as well, they’re not putting buckets in the air. “It’s pretty much widespread,” Casey Ramsey, Hall County’s Emergency Management Agency director, said Thursday morning. “We have multiple locations with trees crossing the road, trees in power lines. Our bigger issue is we can’t remove trees until the power is secured. He said damages were reported across the county. He did not have specific numbers on injury reports. In Gwinnett, two people were found dead in a Buford home after a tree pinned them in their bed. Hall County Emergency Management Director Casey Ramsey said there have been some minor injuries associated with trees falling on either homes or vehicles in the roadway. 30: Hall County is reeling from thousands of power outages and blocked roads due to downed power lines and trees, after the remnants of Hurricane Zeta, now a tropical storm, blasted through Northeast Georgia early Thursday morning. ![]()
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